Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites Quotes

“So they watch over us like gods of old. Our patron sinners.”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

“But functional was not an aesthetic criterion that Flashjack, as a faery, had terribly high on his list of priorities; it was well below shiny and nowhere near weird.”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

“–I’m not like that, he says. I’m not a …
Fairy?
–Every time you say that, I whisper, a little part of you will die.”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

“Civility and etiquette, gentlemen, are all important.”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

“I kissed the boys and made them cry ... in ecstasy.”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

“So the question is ... You wanna be a Scruffian or not?”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

“See, you have the choice we didn’t. You wanna think about it though, you do, before you decide to throw your lot in with us. Cause it’s not just about living in society’s stitches, you know, the bits in between, the squats and secret places. It’s about being Fixed.”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

“I’d take you home with me, see, but two of us in the same Behold? Just wouldn’t work, ends up in all sorts of squabbles over interior design; and the human, well, one faery in the Behold of the Eye, that just gives them a little twinkle of imagination, but more than one and it’s like a bloody fireworks display. They get all unstable and artistic, blinded by the glamour of everything, real or imagined, concrete or abstract. They get confused between beauty and truth and meaning, you see, start thinking every butterfly-brained idea must be true; before you know it they’ve gone schizo on you and you’re in a three-way firefight with all the angels and the demons, them and their bloody ideologies.”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

“Cause what do groanhuffs know? All’s they’ve done is heard our tales and passed em along in a game of Chinese Whispers, getting em all mixed up, like.”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

“They say that nothing can stand against such a man, for the one gun – that marked Mutiny – deals instant death, but the other – the one marked Matelotage – deals instant love, like the very darts of Eros. And who, I ask ye, who can stand up to love?”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

“–The People’s Independent Republic of Arse, Cock and Yo-ho-bloody-ho, I say. PIRACY!
–You are a pirate!
–Damn right I am! I’m Flash Jack Carter, the Darling of the Deep, the Blessed of the Briny, Sodomite Scourge of the Seven Seas ...”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

“The pleasures of the flesh are sweet.
– Mmm, flesh, said Puck.”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

“Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man’s good character is marked by his impeccable attire.”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

“Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

“– Burning lemurs of bloody Madagascar!”
― Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites